Once I worked past my resistance towards Brian Eno's early vocal records, which really boiled down to a fear of prog rock, I've been hooked like Christopha on cheap crack rock. Listening every day to at least one Eno album every day hooked. I love hyperbole and this is not. These four records, Here Come the Warm Jets, Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), Another Green World and Before and After Science are weaving themselves into my listening life. I can't imagine how I ever got along without them.

Since this began a few months ago, I've struggled with a way to communicate my Eno dependency in this forum. Favorite Eno album? Too hard to say. Favorite Eno track - even a top 10 would be difficult. I'm not schooled enough to offer a 101-type overview of Eno's output, especially when sites like this one do such a fine job. So I decided to list ten of my favorite Eno "moments", the sounds, solos, or entire tracks that have driven me towards obsession.

I've made one Eno mix CD for a friend and I wait the results of my evangelical efforts. Hopefully I will soon have a Utah compound's worth of fellow devotees ready to sell their possessions and move to wherever it is that Mr. Eno lives.

So now for my picks. One note, I'm sticking just with Eno's vocal songs on the aforementioned four records. There are many beautiful instrumental tracks on Eno's ambient records that necessitate a follow-up at some point.

In order of album release:

1. "The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch": 1:51 - end. Barbed wire guitars wrap around Eno's biting vocals. "Send for an ambulance / or an investigator," he snarls. The sirens wail, but just as help arrives, the track transitions into the next pick, "Baby's on Fire". ("The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch" can be found on Here Come the Warm Jets).

2. "Baby's on Fire": 1:25 - 4:25. A song of impending doom, with a fire literally ignited by Paul Rudolph and Robert Fripp's blistering 3-minute guitar soloing. Also memorable for Eno's nonsensical lyrics like "Juanita and Juan / Very clever with Maracas / making fortunes selling second hand tobaccos". Read the All Music track review. (From Here Come the Warm Jets)

3. "Some of Them Are Old": 2:57 - end. A beautiful choral ending to this peaceful track, which deftly transitions into the title track of this magnificent album. (From Here Come the Warm Jets)

4. "Here Come the Warm Jets": entire track. Ah, the Warm Jets themselves. Eno named the track and album after the sound he described as "like a tuned jet." Behind the engines, drums slowly roll in, growing louder and louder in the mix as the track arrives then fades into a hazy distance. Read All Music's review of this track. (From Here Come the Warm Jets)

5. "Mother Whale Eyeless": 1:55 - 3:00. Another choral highlight, this one featuring female vocalists singing over a repeating guitar frame. This hypnotic bridge enlivens the song's already psychedelic, absurd atmosphere. Bonus trivia: That's Phil Collins on drums. (From Taking Tiger Mountain (by Strategy)).

6. "Third Uncle": entire track. Scratching, clawing guitars threaten to explode this frenetic, exhausting song into a thousand foreboding pieces. Listen to Bauhaus perform a roaring cover of "Third Uncle" (MP3). (From Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy))

7. "The True Wheel": 2:15 - end. Another simple, mesmerizing guitar break, kicked off by Eno's near squeal, "Here we go!". The echoing guitar frame shifts to another gear of intensity around the 3:15 mark, bringing the song to a cacophonous peak. (From Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy))

8. "I'll Come Running": entire track. So many interesting layers on this one. The whimsical piano figure in the introduction, the castanets, Eno's multi-tracked vocals on the chorus and another memorable guitar break from Fripp. Read All Music's take. (From Another Green World)

9. "King's Lead Hat": 3:16 - end. This one rattles along fiercely until a bizarre, otherworldly synthesizer or guitar bubbles up and carries the track towards the atmosphere at the end. (From Before and After Science)

10. "Here He Comes": entire track. This meditative song is perhaps my favorite by Eno. "Here He Comes" is a beautiful blending of synthesizer, fragile acoustic piano and for a change, a bass solo that gently weeps where guitars usually howl. (From Before and After Science)

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